Their document, released in a Dec. 3 press conference at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., warns that the "science" of climate change "fails the tests of theology, science and economics" and alarmist policies being proposed to combat global warming will destroy jobs, cost trillions of dollars with "no net benefits," dangerously expand government control over private life and "slow or stop the rise of the world's poor out of poverty and so condemn millions to premature death."
The 76-page study, entitled "A Renewed Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor," was accompanied by a second piece, entitled "An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming," which called for biblical stewardship of creation and careful deliberation in adopting policies designed to counteract "manmade global warming."
The release of the two documents were set against a backdrop of debate in the U.S. Senate on "cap and trade" policies, an emerging scandal over activist scientists who manipulated data and censored opposing viewpoints and a Dec. 7-18 United Nations summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, to draft an international global warming treaty.
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Source: Mark Kelly, Baptist Press
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